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By General Aviation News Staff · August 10, 2007 ·

“Getting into light sport after losing your medical is like rediscovering sex.”

— Mike Fletcher, Light Sport Airplanes West

“It is clear to us there is a great need for this aircraft as we strive to drive down the cost of flying and learning to fly.”

— Jack Pelton, Cessna’s chairman, president and CEO on the company’s LSA

“We are better off with Cessna in this market.”

— Cirrus Design’s Alan Klapmeier, on Cessna’s new LSA

“As a flight instructor, your students become miniature versions of you, while you spread your aviation DNA — Da Nowledge of Airplanes — throughout the aviation community.”

— CFI Rod Machado

“You have to be highly disciplined, focused, safety conscious and both extroverted and introverted as the situation requires. Then it’s practice, practice, practice.”

— Patty Wagstaff on what makes a great aerobatic pilot

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